Re: Dell OptiPlex GX270 - multiple bad cap failures

I just replaced the caps on one of these for a customer and had an interesting result.

Machine presented with typical boot message about thermal event. Inspected caps - some swollen, a few cracked and oozing. Replaced 9 caps, reassembled and had the same message about thermal event...hmmm...somethings not right.

Pulled the cpu heatsink and it had no thermal grease on the bottom of it, but plenty on top of cpu. Looked at the plastic heatsink retainer and discovered that there was too much vertical...